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...Reminds me of a story about a Vic/NSW police summit in Albury-Wodonga a few years ago.
After a couple of days of desultory discussion over points of difference, finally a NSW cop got up and said "Look, we'll stop taking bribes if you stop shooting people."
Apparently the motion was carried unanimously and the meeting adjourned to the pub.
Posted by Nabakov

Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Lunch with the FT: Australia's John Howard
Howard, who turns 65 in July, is a product of the post-war, lower middle class. He went to a selective state school in Sydney's suburban Canterbury. I was two years ahead of him there and I can hear the school and its masters talking when he intuitively picks a policy or a theme to touch the nerve of suburban Australians, especially those over 50.
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